By _4 Ann. c. 16._ § 6. every _Venire facias_ for the trial of any issue in any action or suit in any of her Majestys courts of record at Westminster shall be awarded of the body of the proper county where such issue is triable. But By § 7. nothing in this act contained shall extend to any writ, declaration or suit of appeal of felony or murder, or to any indictment or presentment of treason, felony or murder or other matter, or to any process upon any of them or to any writ, bill, action or information upon any penal statute.[44] [Sidenote: View.] By § 8. in any actions brought in any of her Majestys courts of record at Westminster, where it shall appear to the court that it will be proper and necessary that the jurors who are to try the issues in any such actions, should have the view of the messuages, lands or place in question, in order to their better understanding the evidence that will be given upon the trials of such issues, in every such case the respective courts in which such actions shall be depending, may order special writs of _Distringas_ or _Habeas corpora_ to issue, by which the sheriff or such other officer to whom the said writs shall be directed, shall be commanded to have six out of the first twelve of the jurors named in such writs, or some greater number of them, at the place in question some convenient time before the trial, who then and there shall have the matters in question shewn to them by two persons in the said writs named to be appointed by the court; and the said sheriff or other officer who is to execute the said writs shall by a special Retorn upon the same, certify that the view hath been had according to the command of the said writs.[45] By _3 G. 2. c. 25._ § 2. duplicates of the lists [made according to _7 & 8 W. 3. c. 32._ _3 & 4 Ann. c. 18._ and this act] when delivered in at the quarter sessions of the peace, and entered in 'the' book to be kept by the clerk of the peace for that purpose, shall, during the continuance of such quarter-sessions, or within ten days after, be delivered or transmitted by the clerk of the peace to the sheriff of each county, or his undersheriff, in order for his returning of juries out of the said lists; and such sheriff or undersheriff shall immediately take care that the names of the persons contained in such duplicates shall be faithfully entered alphabetically, with their additions and places of abode, in some book or books to be kept by him or them for that purpose. By § 4. no persons shall be returned as jurors to serve on trials at any assizes or _nisi prius_, or at the great sessions, or at the sessions for the counties palatine, who have served within the space of one year before in the county of Rutland, or four years in the county of York, or of two years before in any other county, not being a county of a city or town[46].